(I am not writing as much for this as the others because this is what my wikified paper is on!!)
I really enjoyed this chapter because it stated something I believe in very strongly. I believe that there is a story behind everything and that story affects what that thing is like and what its life is like. That story can evoke emotion or it can go unnoticed. Also, I agree with the point that he made that it is easier to remember a story than it is to remember a fact or a statement. Often times people remember events in story. I do not remember what I did yesterday like this: Breakfast:eggs and toast 9 am; ran 11 am; lunch hotdog 12:30....... I sounds more like this: I woke up and ate a delicious breakfast of eggs and toast at about 9 then after a while I went for a run through the neighborhood and felt so refreshed afterwards. Then I ran to the place where I ate my lunch: a hot dog.
I believe that story is so effective in helping people remember things because it brings in the visual aspect of things and many people are visual learners. When someone either tells me a story or I am reading one, I visualize it in my mind. I see what is being described in my mind also as a story.
This chapter brought to my attention that story is a huge part of businesses also. I had never concidered that before. Advertising that uses a story is usually more effective than advertising that just states the facts. It also brought to my attention how story goes way back in human history, all the way back to the cave men.
Through stories you connect to other people through their familiar experiences. Through my experience I have noticed that when you make connections from one thing to another part of your life it makes things easier to remember and understand. Stories enable us to do this, to connect with others. Stories often also reveal more than facts, they create a better understanding because they include feeling and more details than the facts would. Since facts today are so free and are available so quickly, without story they are meaningless. Story brings interest and significance to facts. Story places facts in context and delivers them with emotional impact. For example, in our fischbowls in my english class where we discuss ideas and things like that we often exchange stories which bring in the personal and emotional impact of the facts or simply the ideas that we have found.
I really liked the quote in the book from Steve Denning that added to the point that Pink is trying to say that we need a WHOLE new mind that incorperates the L-directed thinking that we already know how to do with these right brained altitudes so that we are not replaced by a computer that can do all of the l-directed thinking things at the click of a button or you could be replaced by the people overseas who will do these things for so cheap. Denning said," Storytelling doesn't replace analytical thinking. It supplements it by enabling us to imagine new perspective and new worlds........ Abstract analysis is easier to understand when seen through the lens of a well chosen story." There was also one other time that Pink displays that fact that story is a L- and R- directed altitude. It is when he said the narrative competance cannot replace technical expertise. You cannot have a doctor that listens to his patients story but forgets to take his vitals. You need both to work correctly.
Through our fischbowl I noticed that empathy is really a huge part of story and the impact of the story that you tell. If a story is pointless and has no emotional drag to it such as laughter or sadness people will not care and will not remember the story that is why you see so much advertising that involves the emotional aspect of life.
Also, doctors often times need story in order to be able to diagnose a patient. If they just had the cold hard facts like his leg was broken, then they would not know if he also hit his head or not. It is easier to know that if the person tells what happened and the doctors can go from their and see what may be injured.
In our fischbowl we also discussed the difference between watching a movie story or reading a movie story and which one is better and invloves more of the right brain. I think that watching a movie is better because it allows you to visualize the story as you would like it to be instead of having someone else do it for you.
Over all, I learned that story brings meaning to life. It is not just the facts but it is facts with emotion.
Here are a couple links to articles and things like that, that I found on story telling. Article (Prusak)
Here is a video on incorperating story into teaching. (Teaching)
I encourage you to watch this video series on persuasive story telling. I watched most of them and the ones with good content begin at video 3. If you follow the link (boldapproach) to my works cited page then you can click on the link to the full video series. (Persuasive)
Here is a Kleenex tissue comertial that involves the element of story and the personal connection of emotion (laughter)
I really enjoyed this chapter because it stated something I believe in very strongly. I believe that there is a story behind everything and that story affects what that thing is like and what its life is like. That story can evoke emotion or it can go unnoticed. Also, I agree with the point that he made that it is easier to remember a story than it is to remember a fact or a statement. Often times people remember events in story. I do not remember what I did yesterday like this: Breakfast:eggs and toast 9 am; ran 11 am; lunch hotdog 12:30....... I sounds more like this: I woke up and ate a delicious breakfast of eggs and toast at about 9 then after a while I went for a run through the neighborhood and felt so refreshed afterwards. Then I ran to the place where I ate my lunch: a hot dog.
I believe that story is so effective in helping people remember things because it brings in the visual aspect of things and many people are visual learners. When someone either tells me a story or I am reading one, I visualize it in my mind. I see what is being described in my mind also as a story.
This chapter brought to my attention that story is a huge part of businesses also. I had never concidered that before. Advertising that uses a story is usually more effective than advertising that just states the facts. It also brought to my attention how story goes way back in human history, all the way back to the cave men.
Through stories you connect to other people through their familiar experiences. Through my experience I have noticed that when you make connections from one thing to another part of your life it makes things easier to remember and understand. Stories enable us to do this, to connect with others. Stories often also reveal more than facts, they create a better understanding because they include feeling and more details than the facts would. Since facts today are so free and are available so quickly, without story they are meaningless. Story brings interest and significance to facts. Story places facts in context and delivers them with emotional impact. For example, in our fischbowls in my english class where we discuss ideas and things like that we often exchange stories which bring in the personal and emotional impact of the facts or simply the ideas that we have found.
I really liked the quote in the book from Steve Denning that added to the point that Pink is trying to say that we need a WHOLE new mind that incorperates the L-directed thinking that we already know how to do with these right brained altitudes so that we are not replaced by a computer that can do all of the l-directed thinking things at the click of a button or you could be replaced by the people overseas who will do these things for so cheap. Denning said," Storytelling doesn't replace analytical thinking. It supplements it by enabling us to imagine new perspective and new worlds........ Abstract analysis is easier to understand when seen through the lens of a well chosen story." There was also one other time that Pink displays that fact that story is a L- and R- directed altitude. It is when he said the narrative competance cannot replace technical expertise. You cannot have a doctor that listens to his patients story but forgets to take his vitals. You need both to work correctly.
Through our fischbowl I noticed that empathy is really a huge part of story and the impact of the story that you tell. If a story is pointless and has no emotional drag to it such as laughter or sadness people will not care and will not remember the story that is why you see so much advertising that involves the emotional aspect of life.
Also, doctors often times need story in order to be able to diagnose a patient. If they just had the cold hard facts like his leg was broken, then they would not know if he also hit his head or not. It is easier to know that if the person tells what happened and the doctors can go from their and see what may be injured.
In our fischbowl we also discussed the difference between watching a movie story or reading a movie story and which one is better and invloves more of the right brain. I think that watching a movie is better because it allows you to visualize the story as you would like it to be instead of having someone else do it for you.
Over all, I learned that story brings meaning to life. It is not just the facts but it is facts with emotion.
Here are a couple links to articles and things like that, that I found on story telling.
Article (Prusak)
Here is a video on incorperating story into teaching.
(Teaching)
I encourage you to watch this video series on persuasive story telling. I watched most of them and the ones with good content begin at video 3. If you follow the link (boldapproach) to my works cited page then you can click on the link to the full video series. (Persuasive)
Here is a Kleenex tissue comertial that involves the element of story and the personal connection of emotion (laughter)
(Spit)